Bob Mizer (for Athletic Model Guild) American, 1922-1992
Two Figures in the Shower, c.1960s

£950

Vintage silver print
12.5cm x 10cm (x3) (26.5cm x 49.5cm framed)

Bob Mizer was an American photographer and filmmaker, known for pushing boundaries of depicting male homoerotic content with his work in the mid 20th century. Mizer built a veritable empire on his beefcake photographs and films. He established the influential studio, the Athletic Model Guild (AMG) in 1945. He photographed thousands of men, building a collection that includes nearly two million different images and thousands of films and videotapes.

Mizer continued to pursue his vision, influencing artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and David Hockney. Shower scenes were used by Hockney in an early paintings, such Man in Shower Beverley Hills(1964) and Boy takes Shower (1964).